Spot List

This museum owns over 38,000 artifacts relating to the culture and history of tobacco and salt both from Japan and overseas.

This is an animal park at the top of Mt. Hodo, which is accessible by cable car from the Nagatoro area in Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture. Visitors can interact with small animals in the park.

Open air baths with a stunning view of Nishikigaura

The representative garden of the Meiji period in Higashiyama

2 hours from Tokyo. A youth hostel where you can enjoy the essence of Mother Nature each season on the top of Mt. Mitake (929 m), a part of Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park.

A trekking spot surrounded by mother nature

A well-known shrine for its Chichibu Night Festival. Chichibu shrine enshrines several gods and has a history of over 2,100 years.

A 300-m-high, one of Japan's highest buildings, Abeno Harukas is a landmark of Oasaka that features a department store, an art museum and a hotel.

An indoor theme park where you can meet Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty.

Appreciate the palm-sized artworks

A well-established ryokan where people of culture would gather for traditional performance art during the Taisho period

Have fun at a mountain villa that belonged to a samurai film actor

Museum to appreciate the works of painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa.

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

A facility where you can experience the nature and history of remote wilderness of Oku-Nikko

A temple founded in Higashiyama by Hideyoshi Toyotomi's wife, Nene, to mourn his passing and pray for his soul. The nighttime illuminations in spring, summer and fall are beautiful to see.

A food market where you can find all kinds of ”tastiness” in Niigata

Ruins of the Sendai clan castle built by Date Masamune, who owned 620,000 koku

Famous for its tea room, ”Hasso-no-seki”

The traditional god of learning